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"licious enemie to her, but also a manifeft ad"verfarie to all right & juftice, and therefore "fhe did appeale unto the Pope, committynge "hir whole cause to be judged of him :—& thus "for that day the matter refted."

The following lines, written by Henry, were (according to the Editor of the "Nuga Anti"qua") prefented and fung to Anne Boleyn during the time of their courtship. Byrd, in Queen Elizabeth's time, fet them to music.

The eagle's force fubdues each byrde that flies,
What metal can refifte the flamynge fire?
Doth not the funne dazzle the cleareft eyes,

And melte the ice, and make the fnowe retire? The hardeste ftones are peirced thro' with tooles ; The wifeft are, with princes, made but fooles.

This Monarch's character was, perhaps, never better described than in the dying words of Cardinal Wolfey to Master Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower, who was fent to arreft him: "Hee is a Prince of a moft royall carriage & "hath a princely heart, & rather than he will

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mife or want any part of his will, he will en

danger the one half of his kingdom. I do affure you, Master Kingston, that I have often "kneeled before him for three hours together "to perfuade him from his will and appetite,

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"but could never prevail. Therefore let me << advise you, if you be one of the Privie Counfell, (as by your wifdome you are fit,) take " heed what you put into the King's head, for you can never put it out again."

It appears by a Letter of Gerard de Plaine, that Henry entered into a treaty with the Emperor Maximilian, by which, for a certain fum of money given to him by Henry, Maximilian was to furrender the Imperial dignity to him. It feems as if Henry had not the money ready at the time that the diftreffed Emperor wifhed to exchange his fplendid honour for more fubftantial profit.

"I have heard," fays Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry," that King Henry the Eighth, her Majefties father, though otherwise the most

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gentle and affable Prince of the world, could "not abide to have any man ftare in his face, "or to fix his eye too fteadily upon him, when "he talked with them; nor for a common fuitor "to exclame or cry out for juftice, for that is "offenfive, and as it were a fecret impeachment "of his wrong-doing, as happened once to a Knight in this realm, of great worship, fpeaking to the King.

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"King Henry the Eighth, to one that en"treated him to remember one Sir Anthony

Roufe with fome reward, for that he had

"spent much and was an ill begger; the King "aunswer'd, (noting his infolencie,) If he be "afhamed to begge, we are afhamed to give; " and was nevertheleffe one of the moft liberal "Princes of the world."

PRINCESS MARY,

SISTER TO HENRY THE EIGHTH, AFTERWARDS

QUEEN

OF FRANCE, MARRIED TO LOUIS THE TWELFTH, AND THEN TO CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK.

THE following account of this Princess is taken from a. Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Austria.

66 MADAME,

«Londres, Juin 20, 1514. "Je vous ay riens vouloir efcrire de Madame "la Princeffe jufques à ce que je l'ai veu "plufieurs fois: je vous certiffie que c'est une "des plus belles filles que l'on fcauroit voir, & "me femble point en avoir oncques vu une fi "belle. Elle n'eft riens melancholique, ains

toute recreative, & a le plus beau maintien "foit en devifes, en danfes ou autrement. Je vous affure qu'elle est bien norrie (nourrie) &

"fault

"fault bien qu'on lui ait toujours parlé de "MonfTM*, en telle bonne forte, car par la parole " & les manieres qu'elle tient, & par ce que j'ai ❝ entendu de ceulx qui font autour d'elle, il me "femble qu'el aime Monfr merveilleufement. "Elle a ung tableau, ou il eft tres mal contre"fait, & n'eft jour au monde, qu'elle ne le "veuille voir plus de dix fois, comme l'on m'a "affermé, & ce me femble que qui lui veult "faire plaifir, que l'on lui parle de Monf'. J'euffe cuydé qu'elle eut été de grande ftature " & venue, mais elle fera de moyenne ftature."

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CATHARINE OF ARRAGON,

FIRST QUEEN OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.

WHEN Cardinal Campejus came over to England on the bufinefs of the divorce between Henry the Eighth and his Queen, he had an audience of this Princefs, when, according to Lord Herbert, he took occafion to acquaint her with the danger fhe was in refpecting the annulling her marriage, and advised her to betake herself to a religious life; "for which many pretexts "wanted not, as I find in our records, fhe "having been obferved fince the Commiffion

*Frince of Caftile.

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"took place to allow dancing and pastimes "more than before; and that her countenance, "not only in Court but to the people, was "more cheerful than ordinary; whereas it was "alledged fhe might be more fad and penfive, "confidering that the King's confcience was unfatisfied, and that he had refrained her bed, "and was not willing the Lady Princess her daughter fhould come into her company. The offended Queen replied peremptorily, "that she was refolved to ftand to that marriage "which the Romish Church had allowed, and, "howsoever, not to admit fuch partial judges as they were to give fentence in her caufe."

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In a Miffal which this pious Princefs prefented to her daughter Mary, afterwards Queen of England of that name, is written with her own hand,

"I think that the praiers of frinds be accept"able unto God, and because I take you for "one of my most affured, I praie you to remem"ber me in yours.

"KATHARINA."

This dignified fufferer is thus described in a Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Auftria: "C'est une dame recreative, humaine, " & gracieuse, & de contraire complexion & "maniere à la Reyne de Caftille, fa fœur."

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